Technical note YIND-M-RC-

Technical Note No TN-012

Modbus communication with
Date & Rev No 30.5.2014/A
A1000

This document refers the Basic testing of the Modbus communication of A1000 with
MODSCAN 32 software.

Required Modules:
• Drive – A1000 – CIMR-AD4A0005FMA
• PC with MODSCAN32 software
• RS232 to RS485 Converter
• USB to serial port RS232 converter

Test Setup :

Drive Hardware settings :

• Check all thecommunication cables are connected properly.
• Check the connections as below and make S2 connector ON at the drive side.

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Drive Parameter settings :

Parameter Description Value Comment
only one drive is
H5-01 Drive Node Address 1
connected
H5-02 Communication Speed Selection 0 1200mbps
H5-03 Communication Parity Selection 0 No Parity
Stopping Method After Communication
H5-04 3 Alarm only
Error (CE)
Communication Fault Detection
H5-05 1 Enabled
Selection
H5-06 Drive Transmit Wait Time 5 msec
H5-07 RTS Control Selection 1 Enabled
H5-09 CE Detection Time 2.0 sec
Unit Selection for MEMOBUS/Modbus
H5-10 0 0.1V
Register 0025H
Communications ENTER Function Enter command
H5-11 1
Selection Necessary

H5-12 Run Command Method Selection 0 FWD/stop,REV/Stop

b1-01 Frequency Reference Selection 1 2 via Modbus

b1-02 Run Command Selection 1 2 via Modbus

Note : Once the Drive Parameters are done then do power recycle.
Software Settings :
• Open the Modscan software license version ( demo version will have time out for 3and
half min – i.e drive will disconnect
automatically).
• Go to menu/Connection/Connect
• Check the com port settings in the
Device manager of thewindows and
select the port settings in the Connect
Using colomn.
• Set the values of Baud rate as the
drive selected (H5-02).

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• Word length can be 8, Parity is None ( H5-03) and stop bit can be 1.
• Once the above settings are done then click OK. Then MODSCAN(PC) is connected to
the drive. Still the error display on the screen then recheck the hardware cables and
settings.
• Select theMODBUS Point type is 03 : HOLDING REGISTER, These are the registers of
the Master for the control command and monitor data addressing.

• Once the drive is connected then following screen will display.

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Start command : Enter the value 01 in 40002 for the start command to the drive ( ex :shown in
below screen). Here 40001 is 8bit Upper register and 40002 is the lower register and hence 16bit
control word is both the addresses i.e 40001 and 40002. The Lower register 40002 is entered 01
i.e bit 0 =1.Then Drive will the start command and starts but with no frequency reference

Frequency Reference :
Enter 40003 as the Frequency reference value and check the drive parameter U4-19 for the value
gets appeared.

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Monitor the Control word

Monitor the DC BUS voltage and Frequency Reference :

In the above screen shot we can see the Frequency Reference (250 = 2.5Hz) and DC bus voltage
( 580).

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Control word Bit pattern:

bit no. Description Value

0 FWD Run /Stop 1

1 REV Run 0
2 External Fault 0

3 Fault Reset 0
Multifunction input
4 1 0
Multifunction input
5 2 0
Multifunction input
6 3 0
Multifunction input
7 4 0
Multifunction input
8 5 0
Multifunction input
9 6 0
Multifunction input
A 7 0
Multifunction input
B 8 0
C to F Reserved 0

Value =1 in Hex.
Status Word:

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From the observations , the Modbus addresses are mentioned in the below sheet.
Drive
MODSCAN32 address(H) Description Monitor
40033 20 Drive Status
40034 21 Fault Status
Frequency
40065 23 Reference U1-01
Output
40066 24 Frequency U1-02
Output
voltage
40067 25 reference U1-06

40068 26 Current U1-03

40069 27 Power U1-08
40070 28 Torque ref U1-09
DC Bus
40071 31 Voltage U1-07
Input
terminal
40074 2B status U1-10
Output
terminal
40075 2D status U1-11

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